When Machine Learning Becomes AI - Issue #74

We are at the peak of the machine learning hype, according to Gartner. Making sense of it all is hard but this sense making will happen as we all plummet into the through of disilusionment shortly :-) In this issue, I hope you can be ahead by reading the accompanying articles on AI and machine learning.

See the yellow peak on the Gartner hype cycle? That is machine learning right there.

Okay, so what is machine learning and AI exactly? Here is a cool 4 minute video that explains it really well. And when does machine learning truly become artificial intelligence? Vijay Pande from a16z breaks it all down in this short animated video, including practical implications… like determining whether or not someone has cancer.

If you want to dig deeper, here is a 45 minute video. What’s the breakthrough? And why is Silicon Valley buzzing about artificial intelligence again?
From types of machine intelligence to a tour of algorithms, Frank Chen walks you through the basics (and beyond) of AI and deep learning in this slide presentation.

Machine learning is all the hype. Every investment proposal claims to have machine learning at its core. However, this author claims, not having state-of-the-art AI techniques powering their software would be like not having a relational database in their tech stack in 1980 or not having a rich Windows client in 1987 or not having a Web-based front end in 1995 or not being cloud native in 2004 or not having a mobile app in 2009. In other words, in a small handful of years, software without AI will be unthinkable.